LEIGH SUGAR is a writer, editor, and educator. Her debut poetry collection Freeland is forthcoming from Alice James Books in June 2025. Sugar is an associate producer for Rachel Zucker's poetry podcast Commonplace and the creator/editor of That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Settings (New Village Press, 2023). She has taught many courses and workshops at sites such as the Institute for Justice and Opportunity and Justice Arts Coalition, and her work is widely published in print and online. Sugar holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, a Master of Public Administration specializing in Criminal Justice Policy from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and is a University of Michigan Hopwood Writing Awardee. She lives in Michigan with her pup.